Bottom of Wu

Coolies, soldiers, and hundreds of round-eyed little boys stood in the market place at Tsinanfu and marveled. Bent over a barrel was the Honorable Wu Cha-ding, Commissioner of the Wenchang Bureau of Public Safety. Standing over him was a strong-armed soldier with a broad wooden paddle in his hand who lustily belabored Mr. Wu's quivering bottom.

Brash Commissioner Wu lately let it be known that dignified Judge Pan Kuo-tsze of the District Court was a confirmed opium-smoker. Judge Pan's colleagues immediately indicted Commissioner Wu for slander and after deliberation sentenced him to be publicly spanked in the market place. Outraged Commissioner Wu appealed personally to the highest authority, General Han Fu-chu, Chairman and Pacification Commissioner of the Shantung Provincial Government. But General Han was a friend of Judge Pan. Not only did he approve the sentence but "as a mark of his personal displeasure" slapped Commissioner Wu once on the face. While Tsinanfu marveled, slanderous Commissioner Wu was then paddled 300 times on the fundament.

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